Shaun Wright-Phillips

Shaun Wright-Phillips is, to me, the patron saint of undersized overachievers. At 168 centimeters he had no business surviving the physical grind of the Premier League, yet he carved out years at Manchester City, Chelsea and QPR, and earned England caps along the way. What I admire most is the joy in his game — even late in his career, crossing the Atlantic for the Red Bulls and Phoenix Rising, he looked like a man who simply loved running at defenders. Careers like his remind me that pace and bravery, applied relentlessly, can outweigh every measurement scouts obsess over. I rate him higher than any trophy count suggests.

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Name (English)

Shaun Wright-Phillips

Name (Japanese)

ショーン・ライト＝フィリップス

Reading

しょーん・らいと＝ふぃりっぷす

Born

October 25, 1981 (age 45)

Origin

Greenwich, United Kingdom

Height

168 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Rooster

University

Haberdashers' Hatcham College

• Official sitehttp://www.clubswp.com/home.html
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun%20Wright-Phillips
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88%EF%BC%9D%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%83%97%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q192747

Tags

• association football player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.